Helpless, but struggling, he lay,
While, now no longer bright and fair,
His bicycle lay broken there—
Poor Bicycle!
Whizz; the Christmas number of The Bicycling Times, 1880.
THE SETTLER'S VERSION OF EXCELSIOR.
The shades of night were a coming down swift,
Upidee, Upida.
The snow was heapin' up, drift on drift,